PARAMETRIC GAUNTLET

I have seen a lot of good gauntlets lately, but all that I have seen are only in stl format. Although I could use a scaling percentage to make one key parameter correct – like the width of the wrist – that then left other parameters incorrect. Manually editing the stls is too much effort. With this OpenSCAD script, you can instead adjust a bunch of parameters to create a custom made stl. That stl will be sized to fit better, as well as customized in many ways. Some of the adjustments that can be made are:

width and thickness of arm at wrist

length of the gauntlet

width and thickness of arm at the end of the gauntlet

wall thickness of the gauntlet shell

extra spacing inside shell for padding or such

width and height of slots for Velcro straps

width and height of the base rails

size of wrist screw holes

amount of straight rail extension between wrist pivot and start of shell

whether to include bracing rings at front and/or middle and/or back of shell

width of any such bracing rings

whether to include a curved cutout in the front and/or back

size of any such cutout

whether to include an integrated string tuner
if so then also

how far from the wrist

how many tuners

what size tuners

any additional tuner elevation above the gauntlet

whether to include an integrated string guide
if so then also

how far from the wrist

how many strings

what size strings

any additional string elevation above the gauntlet

This is still a work in progress, but I wanted to make it available to those who are currently trying to make such parts manually.

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